John E. Pak

5.7k total citations · 2 hit papers
31 papers, 1.7k citations indexed

About

John E. Pak is a scholar working on Molecular Biology, Infectious Diseases and Immunology. According to data from OpenAlex, John E. Pak has authored 31 papers receiving a total of 1.7k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 17 papers in Molecular Biology, 10 papers in Infectious Diseases and 7 papers in Immunology. Recurrent topics in John E. Pak's work include SARS-CoV-2 and COVID-19 Research (8 papers), Glycosylation and Glycoproteins Research (5 papers) and SARS-CoV-2 detection and testing (4 papers). John E. Pak is often cited by papers focused on SARS-CoV-2 and COVID-19 Research (8 papers), Glycosylation and Glycoproteins Research (5 papers) and SARS-CoV-2 detection and testing (4 papers). John E. Pak collaborates with scholars based in United States, Canada and India. John E. Pak's co-authors include Xiaohui Deng, William A. Müller, Payton A. Weidenbacher, Peter S. Kim, Shaogeng Tang, Wesley Wu, James M. Rini, Ellen Shapiro, Tung‐Tien Sun and Xue‐Ru Wu and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences and Journal of the American Chemical Society.

In The Last Decade

John E. Pak

30 papers receiving 1.6k citations

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Hit papers significantly outperform the citation benchmark for their cohort. A paper qualifies if it has ≥500 total citations, achieves ≥1.5× the top-1% citation threshold for papers in the same subfield and year (this is the minimum needed to enter the top 1%, not the average within it), or reaches the top citation threshold in at least one of its specific research topics.

Efficient evolution of human antibodies from general protein language models

2023 205 citations Brian Hie, Varun R. Shanker et al. Nature Biotechnology profile →
The Virtual Lab of AI agents designs new SARS-CoV-2 nanobodies

2025 18 citations Kyle Swanson, Wesley Wu et al. Nature profile →

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
John E. Pak United States	18	837	362	306	252	194	31	1.7k
Antonella Bugatti Italy	28	941 1.1×	280 0.8×	325 1.1×	92 0.4×	108 0.6×	75	1.9k
Chiara Urbinati Italy	29	1.3k 1.6×	140 0.4×	420 1.4×	103 0.4×	215 1.1×	55	2.1k
Øystein Garred Norway	20	1.1k 1.4×	256 0.7×	469 1.5×	81 0.3×	64 0.3×	43	2.2k
Marko Fonovič Slovenia	24	1.5k 1.8×	65 0.2×	203 0.7×	176 0.7×	158 0.8×	49	2.7k
Regina Heidenreich Germany	26	1.7k 2.1×	316 0.9×	956 3.1×	107 0.4×	69 0.4×	44	2.7k
Ricardo J. Giordano Brazil	24	1.2k 1.4×	47 0.1×	262 0.9×	475 1.9×	104 0.5×	51	2.1k
Benjamin G. Hoffstrom United States	14	1.2k 1.4×	449 1.2×	215 0.7×	89 0.4×	352 1.8×	22	2.3k
Tiina Öhman Finland	22	924 1.1×	109 0.3×	357 1.2×	53 0.2×	58 0.3×	36	1.5k
Silke Hoffmann Germany	23	830 1.0×	134 0.4×	110 0.4×	122 0.5×	140 0.7×	63	1.6k
William A. Rees United States	23	852 1.0×	77 0.2×	1.2k 3.8×	116 0.5×	187 1.0×	59	2.7k

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20 of 20 papers shown

Pak, John E., et al.. (2026). CCDC32 stabilizes clathrin-coated pits and drives their invagination. eLife. 14.

Tang, Shaogeng, Soohyun Kim, Varun R. Shanker, et al.. (2025). Utilizing Machine Learning to Improve Neutralization Potency of an HIV-1 Antibody Targeting the gp41 N-Heptad Repeat. ACS Chemical Biology. 20(7). 1470–1480. 1 indexed citations

Swanson, Kyle, et al.. (2025). The Virtual Lab of AI agents designs new SARS-CoV-2 nanobodies. Nature. 646(8085). 716–723. 18 indexed citations breakdown →

Wu, Wesley, Sasha Gupta, Sharon A. Sagan, et al.. (2024). High-yield production of recombinant human myelin oligodendrocyte glycoprotein in SHuffle bacteria without a refolding step. Journal of Immunological Methods. 534. 113764–113764. 1 indexed citations

Hie, Brian, Varun R. Shanker, Duo Xu, et al.. (2023). Efficient evolution of human antibodies from general protein language models. Nature Biotechnology. 42(2). 275–283. 205 indexed citations breakdown →

Shoemaker, Sophie R., et al.. (2023). Exploring the conformational landscape of the rabies virus glycoprotein using HDX-MS. Biophysical Journal. 122(3). 189a–189a. 1 indexed citations

Gupta, Sasha, Milos Simic, Sharon A. Sagan, et al.. (2023). CAR-T Cell–Mediated B-Cell Depletion in Central Nervous System Autoimmunity. Neurology Neuroimmunology & Neuroinflammation. 10(2). 46 indexed citations

Shoemaker, Sophie R., et al.. (2023). Epitope mapping of diagnostic anti-rabies monoclonal antibodies provide structural insight into rabies variant identification in infected wildlife. Biophysical Journal. 122(3). 331a–331a. 1 indexed citations

Weidenbacher, Payton A., Eric Waltari, Mary Kate Morris, et al.. (2022). Converting non-neutralizing SARS-CoV-2 antibodies into broad-spectrum inhibitors. Nature Chemical Biology. 18(11). 1270–1276. 13 indexed citations

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Costello, Shawn M., Sophie R. Shoemaker, Annalee W. Nguyen, et al.. (2022). The SARS-CoV-2 spike reversibly samples an open-trimer conformation exposing novel epitopes. Nature Structural & Molecular Biology. 29(3). 229–238. 74 indexed citations

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Waltari, Eric, et al.. (2022). AIRRscape: An interactive tool for exploring B-cell receptor repertoires and antibody responses. PLoS Computational Biology. 18(9). e1010052–e1010052. 3 indexed citations

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Powell, Abigail E., Kaiming Zhang, Mrinmoy Sanyal, et al.. (2021). A Single Immunization with Spike-Functionalized Ferritin Vaccines Elicits Neutralizing Antibody Responses against SARS-CoV-2 in Mice. ACS Central Science. 7(1). 183–199. 122 indexed citations

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Eriksen, Jacob, Narinobu Juge, John E. Pak, et al.. (2019). Structures suggest a mechanism for energy coupling by a family of organic anion transporters. PLoS Biology. 17(5). e3000260–e3000260. 38 indexed citations

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Li, Zhijie, et al.. (2017). Recognition of EGF-like domains by the Notch-modifying O-fucosyltransferase POFUT1. Nature Chemical Biology. 13(7). 757–763. 62 indexed citations

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Chaudhary, Sarika, John E. Pak, Franz Gruswitz, Vinay Sharma, & Robert M. Stroud. (2012). Overexpressing human membrane proteins in stably transfected and clonal human embryonic kidney 293S cells. Nature Protocols. 7(3). 453–466. 63 indexed citations

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Pak, John E., Malathy Satkunarajah, J. Seetharaman, & James M. Rini. (2011). Structural and Mechanistic Characterization of Leukocyte-Type Core 2 β1,6-N-Acetylglucosaminyltransferase: A Metal-Ion-Independent GT-A Glycosyltransferase. Journal of Molecular Biology. 414(5). 798–811. 16 indexed citations

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Pak, John E., Chetna Sharon, Malathy Satkunarajah, et al.. (2009). Structural Insights into Immune Recognition of the Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome Coronavirus S Protein Receptor Binding Domain. Journal of Molecular Biology. 388(4). 815–823. 41 indexed citations

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Pak, John E. & James M. Rini. (2006). X‐ray Crystal Structure Determination of Mammalian Glycosyltransferases. Methods in enzymology on CD-ROM/Methods in enzymology. 416. 30–48. 8 indexed citations

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Smith, Sallie W., et al.. (1999). Characterization of a mutant T-cell hybridoma line with defects in the TCR-mediated apoptotic pathway. Cell Death and Differentiation. 6(1). 36–47. 3 indexed citations

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Pak, John E., et al.. (1994). Monoclonal antibody to murine PECAM-1 (CD31) blocks acute inflammation in vivo.. The Journal of Experimental Medicine. 179(3). 1059–1064. 264 indexed citations

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